Constituency
87. Poonjar
Community mirrorKerala Assembly Election, 1970
KL-POONJAR
KEC 54.7%won by 25.4%IND 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedKerala Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.5% to 25.4%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatKerala Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
47,879
Margin
12,139
25.35%
Candidates
4 contested · winner KEC- 1K. M. GEORGEKerala Congress · KEC26,18154.7%
- 2V. T. THOMASIndependent · IND14,04229.3%
- 3MUSTAFFA KAMALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,77114.1%
- 4A. K. KUMARAN ACHARIIndependent · IND8851.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- KEC
- Winner now
- KEC
- KEC–IND swing
- −22.2%
- KEC share
- 47.5% → 54.7%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —